Installing

This page refers to the procedures required by Image Version 3.10 and above.

First download a copy of the archive containing the binaries and the help documents.

Note: in order to install the software publically in your system, you have to gain root-access, If you aren't a privileged root-user or don't know what a root-user is, contact your system administrator and ask him/her to perform the tasks involving access to protected directories.
untar the archive
```
zcat <archive>.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
```
copy the programs in the bin/ subdir into a suitable directory in your $PATH
copy all files from the directory imhelp/ to the directory /usr/local/image/help/, which is the default assumed by im3. If the help pages will reside in another directory be sure to configure the $help_directory keyword in the im3-executable.

you will have to set the variable $IMTOP_DIR to be the top-directory where all Image mapping projects are stored, e.g. ~/imdata/ in your home-directory.
Check the help page on environment variables for more variables and how to set them.

Check the help page on built-in configuration on how to configure the launching of external programs. The default configuration will assume that all other programs from the bin/ directory of the distribution archive are in a directory which is in your $PATH setup of your command-shell.

Before you can use Image, you need to import some data. You can download some examples or scan your own images.
Use the imimport script to create a gel project for the particular image file. It will be copied to the appropriate location under your $IMTOP_DIR.
You can now start analysing those gels by running im3.